Becoming a Better Help Meet: Pray for Your Husband (+ a Giveaway!!)
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Be sure to catch up on the rest of this series here.
Last time, we talked about working hard to make sure our relationship with God is strong and alive so that we can be readily equipped to meet the needs of our husband.
Today, let’s talk about praying for our husbands.
Besides making sure your relationship with God is what it should be, praying for your husband is one of the most important things you can do as his help meet. You may not be able to change anything about your husband. You may not be able to help your husband be successful at his work. You may not be able to make your husband become a stronger spiritual leader.
But God can.
God loves your husband more than you do. God wants your husband to be spiritually minded. God wants your husband to love Him and serve Him. God wants your husband to meet your needs and the needs of your family.
You can talk to your husband about these desires. You can hurt for your husband when he struggles. You can encourage your husband to do more of the things you want him to do. You can beg your husband to become more of the man you want him to be.
But most of the time, you just need to shut-up and pray.
Love your husband. Respect your husband. Take care of your husband’s physical needs. Listen to your husband. Be kind to your husband.
And pray for your husband.
Pray for his role as a father. Pray for his role as your husband. Pray for his work. Pray for his other relationships. Pray for his struggles. Pray for his weaknesses. Pray for his strengths. Pray for his spiritual growth.
The prayer of a righteous [wo]man is powerful and effective. (Read James 5:13-18.)
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Going right along with this idea of praying for our husbands…Taraleigh of FBS Books (take note of her sponsorship button on my sidebar) is offering to give away one of the books from her shop, Prayers of an Excellent Wife.
Prayers of an Excellent Wife appears to be a fantastic resource to help us learn the art of praying for our husbands consistently, faithfully and according to scripture.
I’d like to encourage you to take a good look around FBS Books as it is filled with wonderful resources!! Thank you so much Taraleigh for offering to share Prayers of an Excellent Wife with one of my readers! This book is sure to be a blessing!
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For a chance to win a copy of Prayers of an Excellent Wife:
- Leave a comment here on this post letting us know something you pray for your husband about (or would like to begin praying for him about).
- For a second chance at winning a copy of this book, join me in becoming a facebook fan of FBS books! This will be a great way to keep up to date with their sales and new products! Once you become a fan, be sure to leave a second comment here letting me know!
Everyone sign up to win this book…then get on your knees for your husband. Your marriage will be blessed as a result! Thank God for the chance to lift our needs up to Him!
I have been praying for my husband to find gainful employment. He spent two years trying to get his own business going only to have it fail. He needs to feel his income-earning worthiness again.
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I have been praying for my husband’s safety {he’s deployed overseas} and that our time apart be a time of spiritual growth for him {and me too!}
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I am praying for his back. He has had a bad back since I have known him, but I see the discouragement and depression that it causes him, not to mention the pain. So I pray for enough relief that he will be able to do what God wants him to, for strenghth to be the father/husband/friend that he wants to be.
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I’ve prayed for years that God will make my husband the godly man He desires him to be…a leader in our home and church, etc. I’ve prayed that God will bring godly men into his life who will encourage him and challenge him in his walk. Recently I’ve seen tangible evidence of God answering these prayers….My husband is now involved in a small group Bible study with a few great Christian men, who are speaking truth and encouragement into his life. He’s just gotten involved in ministry in our church, and lately he’s been coming to me more and more often saying things like, “Let’s spend some time reading God’s word and praying together tonight”. God answers prayers!!! It’s exciting to see how He is at work in my husband’s life!
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I just became a fan of FBS Books on facebook too!!!
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I pray for him to want to learn more about our Lord.
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I have been praying for a job for my husband. He has been unemployed for almost a year now.
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I am a Facebook fan of FBS Books.
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I am so glad I found this post because I really needed this reminder to pray for my husband… I am going to start praying about/for his strengths…
Thanks for this giveaway…
Elizabeth
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Just became a FB fan!
Thanks again!
Elizabeth
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I am currently praying for my husband as he applies for a new job within his company. This new job seems like it was tailor-made for him, but there’s a chance he may not get it.
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I pray for wisdom and discernment for my husband in this wild world of sin and confusion. It’s not easy to live in a way that God pleases amongst those unsaved and we have to be living testimonies before men. I always pray that God will teach and guide my husband in his walk, that in whatever my husband does, God will be there to guide and help. :-) I married a good man and God has been very good to us.
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I pray for my husbands safety at work, for both of us for wisdom in raising our children.
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I pray that God would continue to mold my husband into the leader He desires him to be in our family. He’d been deployed 2 1/2 of the last 4 years and it’s been difficult re-establishing relationships with our children on a personal, face-to-face level and stepping back into a Godly leadership role as we had to exist in his absence. I pray also that I would be the help-meet he needs me to be and not hinder him in re-taking that role.
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I pray for my husband to be in a job that totally fulfills all areas of his life: emotionally, professionally, what God’s will is for his life, etc.
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I just became a fan on FB!!!
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I pray for wisdom for my husband to lead our family in a godly manner and to be a light in his workplace.
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Such a good reminder. I am praying for my hubby as I write this!
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I have been praying for my husband as he finishes school while working and strives to be an active father and godly example for our boys.
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I am praying for an older man who can spiritually mentor my husband (one of his desires), for more and deeper Christian male friends and that I will be sensative to ways I can encourage them, and that God would provide a job that he loves as much as his current ones and that he is just as good at as his current ones, but that would require less overnight trips and more time with us.
(Wow. That was quite a run-on sentance!)
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I am praying for my husband’s health. He has a rare disease and it causes him problems.
Susan
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I pray he will be passionate about giving and helping others
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I pray for my husband’s mind to be protected while he is at work. Both construction and Army can be places where a lot of foul language, nasty music, and vile topics are flung around every day. The spiritual battle can be intense and it is won in renewing our minds through God’s Word – but it is a daily battle, and sometimes even physically tiring.
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I pray for my husband to know Jesus as his Savior.
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my husband is deploying for the seventh time next month and well i could list a hundred things my family and my husband could use prayer for related to this deployment
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i am a facebook fan
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I pray that my husband will be faithful to and walk closely with the Lord. I pray other things as well, but this is the most important!
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Within the last 1 1/2 yrs my husband has taken a job that pays enough to allow me to stay at home w/ my two small children (actually HIS idea for me to stay home!). I pray for him for the endurance b/c his job is demanding & I pray thanking God for my husband who is so willing to work so hard to allow me to stay home.
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FB fan!
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I pray that my husband will be the leader (in our home & elsewhere) that God created him to be, and that we support him in that.
Thank you!
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i pray for my husband daily that he would rely on the Lord for his strength throughout his work day and that he would remember that his greatest need was already met at the cross…..
~patty romack
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praying for my husband to recommit himself to the Lord
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I just became a fan of FBS books.
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I have been praying for his success at his new job. My husband was unemployed for a year. Difficult times for our large family, but we never lost faith and have grown even closer to God and each other going through these hard times. We are very blessed!
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Wow Laura. What an amazingly powerful post. Thank you so much for sharing it with us all. It has really touched my heart. I hope that it is as effective as it was written. Thank you.
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I pray he will listen for the Holy Spirit, and then act accordingly.
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I pray constantly that the Holy Spirit will soften my husband’s heart toward Him and that he will seek, find and receive Jesus as Lord and Savior of his life.
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My name is Kristy, I am a young wife and mother, I am 22 years old, I have 2 girls and have been married for almost 2 years. I am completely in love with my husband and absolutely positive that this is the man that God intended me to be with.. However marriage is hard and I havent been a christian all my life so I would really love this book so that I can learn more about how to pray for my husband. I want to be the wife that God intended me to be and the wife my husband needs. I want to just learn in general how to be a Godly wife, when to SHUT UP and listen a little more, and well… PRAY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I would Love this book and I know my marriage would truly benefit from it. Thank you so much.
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Would love a copy of this book. Am a fan on FB and subscriber. I am a happily married sahm with 4 children and would love to read this book – as I have read several – but not this one.
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I pray for my husband’s salvation. I pray that God will grant him a great job where he will utilize his strength and passion.
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I too pray for my husbands salvation… A request has been answered though, he recently started to attend church with me and our four boys! PRAISE THE LORD! Not only did he attend but also my brother-in-law! Now, for the softening of his heart and his ears be open to the calling of the Holy Spirit! I too need prayer for the fact that there are many times to where I just need to SHUT UP AND PRAY… May the Lord continually bless you and your family… Thank you for such a powerful message!
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Praying for decernment!
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I pray that my husband will know Gods love in a real way!
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Shalom,
todah rabah (thank you) for writing a book as a guideline for helpmeets and praying. Do you every give a book to someone who can’t afford one? Do you have any used or damaged ones around? If so, please contact me, I’d love to have one of them.
May our father in Heaven bless you
Rivkah
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